What about Force India?They were openly saying they were struggling with the weight of the halo so maybe they've now gone too light and not strong enough so are now struggling to find that middle ground?

all crashtests done said in interview by Otmar Szafnauer of FI on 28.01.

as I read the motorsport.it article on Williams, they alledgedly changed the way of manufacturing the car (monocoque?)... so it might be related to that, ( beeing so late and only able to rcentrly pass the tests).. I think weightsaving is the driver there.

For some reason it won't let me edit the original post.... Will keep trying.

In 2007 I had the chance to go to a meet-and-greet with an F1 test driver. I decided not to as I didn't think he'd even amount to much...he was the BMW Sauber test driver and his name was Sebastian Vettel...

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In 2007 I had the chance to go to a meet-and-greet with an F1 test driver. I decided not to as I didn't think he'd even amount to much...he was the BMW Sauber test driver and his name was Sebastian Vettel...

In 2007 I had the chance to go to a meet-and-greet with an F1 test driver. I decided not to as I didn't think he'd even amount to much...he was the BMW Sauber test driver and his name was Sebastian Vettel...

20th February Renault
20th February Sauber
22nd February Mercedes
22nd February Ferrari
23rd February Mclaren
25th February Force India
26th February Toro Rosso

Just for my own sanity.

You're my hero.

Separately, is there a logic to when the teams want to unveil their cars? I understand going first and last for effect, but don't really understand the thinking beyond that. Given how thought out, possibly overthought, everything is - I suspect there's a rationale to all of this... even getting the car built doesn't make 100% sense, since Williams just unveil a fantastic photoshop of a car every year.

i know it's been around for some time, but i can't remember that in the days of mansell, senna, etc. there was anything but some photoshoot sessions, the drivers standing next to the car, usually on the actual test track. sometimes with the responsible crew for it alongside it. not neccesarily an unveil day in the modern sense of the word.

wasn't it more or less what was seen on the test track, and finally in melbourne?

Dumpster sounds so much more classy. It's the diamond of the cesspools.

i know it's been around for some time, but i can't remember that in the days of mansell, senna, etc. there was anything but some photoshoot sessions, the drivers standing next to the car, usually on the actual test track. sometimes with the responsible crew for it alongside it. not neccesarily an unveil day in the modern sense of the word.

wasn't it more or less what was seen on the test track, and finally in melbourne?

Back then F1 wasn't big business as it is today, everything is about money, launches create hype and PR.